Making Progress. . . Again!!

This is my progress so far since I rerolled the quilt sandwich.

Where the masking tape strip is located is the current row that I am working on. Lower, toward the bottom of the picture is two more rows that are faintly visible.

I am surprised that I am this far in just a couple of days.  Several other things interrupt the progress of the quilting but I try to devote at least an hour a day to this project because my deadline is in March.

Maybe it's my imagination but now that I rerolled the quilt sandwich, it seems to be easier to quilt it and it seems to be going quicker than before when it was crooked.

Strange what the power of suggestion does to the mind! LOL!  Even though it was a difficult decision, I am glad that I decided to take it apart and start again and it hasn't taken long to catch up to the point I was at before.

Beginning again

I realized after quilting two rows across the width and two cross wise small sections that my quilt was askew. No amount of tugging and fudging was going to straighten it.

So, I made the dreaded decision to rip out and start over again!!! Oh my!!

I took all my supplies and my quilt into our nearest town of Mora, to the conference room at "Tapetes de Lana", a local rug weaving enterprise.  They have several rectangular tables for use and as long as they are not booked they do not charge to use for private purposes such as mine.

I gathered the tables together in the center of the room in the shape of a large rectangle.

Then I started laying out my quilt, First the backing, which I taped to the tables. Then I layed the batting on top of that.  After I got the batting nice and smooth, I layed the quilt top.

After I got the whole thing nice and straight, I pinned the leader cloth to the edges, inserted the bars and with my husband's help rolled the whole thing onto the bars. This whole process took about three hours because I was doing most of it by myself while my husband did some errands in town.

When we finished rolling we went home and mounted the bars onto the frame.

NOW I am ready to hand quilt it. It is nice and straight and I have learned never to rush when you are mounting a quilt sandwich onto the bars.